bowl; wooden bowl

bowl; wooden bowl

bowl; wooden bowl

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Introduction

Wooden bowl made by an 80-year-old Indigenous elder from Lac La Croix First Nation. While the maker is otherwise unknown, Pitzer, the original collector of this item, noted that it was made using a simple, flexible knife. The bowl is made of dense, heavy wood, and has vegetable fibre or cord looped through one of the handles. Along the rim and two handles, there is a burned decoration. Collected by Martin Pitzer, this item is currently housed at the Weltmuseum Wien in Vienna, Austria.

Name of Maker(s): Unknown Saulteaux artist
Nation of Maker: Other
Nation of Origin

Object is indicated as being made by an 80-year-old Indigenous elder from "La Croix." Lac La Croix First Nation is a Saulteaux community.

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular nation(s)

Object is indicated as being made by an 80-year-old Indigenous elder from "La Croix." Lac La Croix First Nation is a Saulteaux community.

Place of Origin: Lac La Croix First Nation
Date Made or Date Range: Before 1854
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

GRASAC research notes created during an onsite visit to Weltmuseum in January of 2016.

Pitzer, Martin. "Index of Objects and Woks of an American Indian Tribe in the Far North, Together With a Description of the Same." Printed by the J. G. Weiss University Press Printing Office. Munich. 1854: 11.

Materials

Dense/heavy wood, vegetable fibre/cord looped through one handle.

Other Notes

burned decoration along rim and two handles.

Dimensions: 32.5 × 27.5 × 7 cm
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Martin Pitzer collected this item; he travelled to the Great Lakes region in the 1850s.

Current Location: Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 131747
Collection at Current Location: Martin Pitzer Collection
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1850s
Previous Collectors: Martin Pitzer
Collection Narratives and Histories

Austrian church painter Martin Pitzer travelled to the Great Lakes region, to "the Ottawa villages of Arbre Croche and Cross Village" in the early 1850s. He collected a significant number of items and brought them back to Austria to be part of an exhibition to raise money for the mission.

GKS Reference Number: 59039
How to Cite this Item

Unknown Saulteaux artist, bowl. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 131747. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item id 59039.

Record Creation Context

In January of 2016, a small team of GRASAC researchers visited the collection to study and photograph it: Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake). This GKS record was created in January of 2022 by GRASAC RA Aidan Mitchell-Boudreau.

Approximate Place of Origin

48.3833, -92.0833

Source of Information about Places

Object is indicated as being made by an 80-year-old Indigenous elder from "La Croix." Lac La Croix First Nation is a Saulteaux community.

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